Thoughtful Lines

Delve into these The Band quotes from songs to discover words that resonate and offer timeless perspective.

Love Quotes from The Band Songs

1. “With you forever I’ll stay, though our luck may have died and our love may be cold.”
2. “You gotta be the way, your name is the only word that I can say.”
3. “Little Bessie, girl that I once knew, if there’s anything she could do, she would be there for me.”
4. “My Bessie can’t be beat, she mends me, she defends me, she sends me.”
5. “I’m trying to get her to give it up, but I just can’t refuse her, she’s a chooser.”
6. “When I get off of this mountain, you know where I wanna go? Straight down the Mississippi River to my love.”
7. “And I swore and I took another pull, because my Bessie can’t be beat.”
8. “You ask about the weather, but we could be relaxin’ in my sleepin’ bag, Rag Mama.”
9. “If you still want me, please forgive me, for the crown of love has fallen from me.”

Life Quotes from The Band Songs

1. “Everything dies, baby, that’s a fact, but maybe everything that dies some day comes back.”
2. “There’s winners and there’s losers, and I am south of the line, tired of getting caught on the losing end.”
3. “You take what you need and you leave the rest, but they should never have taken the very best.”
4. “This living alone will drive me crazy, you don’t know the shape I’m in.”
5. “Save your neck or save your brother, looks like it’s one or the other, in the shape I’m in.”
6. “Long enough I’ve been up on Skid Row, and it’s plain to see, I’ve nothing to show.”
7. “Dry summer, then comes fall, which I depend on most of all.”
8. “I just spent 60 days in the jailhouse for the crime of having no dough, nowhere to go.”
9. “Our love is plastic, we’ll break it to bits, I want to break free, but will they break me?”

Motivational and Inspiring Quotes from The Band Songs

1. “Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty, and meet me tonight in Atlantic City.”
2. “May you stay forever young, may your song always be sung.”
3. “May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, forever young.”
4. “I will hear every word the boss may say, for he’s the one who hands me down my pay, I’m a union man.”
5. “May you build a ladder to the stars, and climb on every rung, forever young.”
6. “I’m gonna go down by the water, but I ain’t gonna jump in, I’ll just be looking for my neighbor.”
7. “I don’t care if the money’s no good, you take what you need and you leave the rest.”
8. “I would rather be wrong, than live in the shadows of your song, now I’m ready to start.”
9. “If they don’t give us what we like, men, that’s when you gotta go on strike.”

The Band Instagram Captions

1. “Atlantic City tonight?”
2. “Everything dies, baby, that’s a fact.”
3. “Forever young.”
4. “Shape I’m in.”
5. “Take what you need.”
6. “Union man, all the way.”
7. “Dry summer, then comes fall.”
8. “Just looking for my neighbor.”
9. “Rag Mama rag.”